I LED an all-party delegation of MPs to Bolivia last year and one thing we
learned there was how devastating banana disease can be for that country’s
economy—it’s one of the poorest in Latin America. So I had no doubts that
Â鶹´«Ã½ was fully justified in running its recent editorial,
“Banana drama”
(21 July, p 3).
A group of publicly funded institutes, the Global Musa Genomics Consortium,
intends to unravel the ever-popular fruit’s genome and to broadcast the findings
to help banana breeders tackle tricky problems for the plant such as disease
resistance and propagation. A super-banana…
